A report of his has come down to us through the senior authorities, via Mālik.
126 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim ibn Ḥayyān al-Ṭūsī * (M)
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and master of precision, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; born in Ṭūs, resident in Nishapur.
He studied under: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Wakīʿ, Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Muʿāwiyah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Abū Usāmah, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Muslim, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib, Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qabbānī, Aḥmad ibn Salamah, Makkī ibn ʿAbdān, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, his brother ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Sharqī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, and all the other ḥadith scholars of his city who met him.
Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib, the ḥāfiẓ, said: “ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim gives an excellent rendition of the narrations of Yaḥyā and Ibn Mahdī.”
Ṣāliḥ Jazarah said: “He is reliable.”
I say: Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir compiled the higher-level isnāds of Ibn Hāshim, and we have heard that collection.
Al-Ḥākim said: Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAnbarī narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Salamah narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim narrated to us, saying: “Wakīʿ said to us, ‘Which of the two isnāds do you prefer: al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbd Allāh, or Sufyān, from Manṣūr, from…’”